Bill Corbett of MST3K fame has a tweet that illustrates something I have come to find baffling (Incidentally, the tweet that follows this thread is pretty funny). What’s a movie you’ve never seen that seems to make people ANGRY when they hear you haven’t seen it? If any? Me: The Shawshank Redemption sorry in advance!… Read More Getting Angry About Movies Other People Haven’t Seen
Full Disclosure: This article on Medium is by the official account of Gab, the free-speech Social Network that grew up in the aftermath of the first round of Twitter going after conservatives. So, they’re not exactly a neutral observer, and if you don’t care about free-speech for people you don’t like, then you might find… Read More How to Remove Facebook From Your Life
The Sunrise Motel makes note of the same Film School Rejects article that I did, and pulls a good description of the puritanical urge to sieve any piece of art for wrongthink, “hermeneutics of suspicion”. I might go a step farther than this, and say that a great deal of criticism is done not for… Read More Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Problem with Film Critics
Or, How A Novel from 1985 and a Movie from Last Year are Related in My Head Had an opportunity to rewatch The Last Jedi yesterday and noticed something that made the plot make better sense. One of the things that annoyed me about the B-Plot was how Vice Admiral Pink-Hair’s escape plan ends up being… Read More The Detail You Missed
I’ve read Jaws, and I have to agree. Not to sure about the others, but check this out and see what you think.
Doing the chattering class a favor. If authors are dead set on publishing these types of pieces, then the least we can do is take a moment and work out the perfect template. This way, the argument gets made, the author gets paid, and audiences can breathe a little easier knowing that they aren’t actually… Read More Film School Rejects Provides Template for Crap Reviews of Old Movies
Which is to say, why I don’t labor at all. I don’t even bother. Here’s what I’ve seen: Iron Man (the first one) The first Avengers movie Captain America (the first one) The first half-hour of Thor (again, the first one) A good part of the first season of Jessica Jones I liked the first two and found them entertaining. The… Read More Why I Labor to Care About the Marvel Universe
Rules are for suckers. They’re specific to a time and place, and so limited. Rules change. Principles, on the other hand… Those of you who follow this blog for some time know that I am not a big fan of “how to” guides, rules, and funny little checklists that should magically do everything for you.… Read More Blog For the Sake of Blogging
I encountered this a month ago, when it was written, and I’ve been meaning to blog about it, but honestly, just read the whole thing. https://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirely-unnecessary-demise-of-barnes-noble I will add some of my own thoughts in a later post.
Amanda at Mad Genius Club: One might argue that Grant’s simple faith in success, not only saved his career, it also saved the war for the Union, and made Grant into a legend. Not because Grant was the most talented or creative officer in uniform. He wasn’t. No, not in his own Army; and certainly… Read More Grant the Relentless Invoked as a Model for Authors
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